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Talk by Ved Arya - Building A Self Reliant Community Through Enterprise
Ved Arya, Founder and Managing Trustee, SRIJAN
Ved Arya is a serial social entrepreneur and a long-time program partner of AIF. He has represented the Indian NGO sector in the annual meetings to the Board of Governors of the World Bank and the IMF. He is also an advisor to many bilateral and multilateral organizations including the World Bank, DfiF, Sida and SDC.
He founded SRIJAN [http://www.srijanindia.org/] a not for profit agency committed to promote rural community institutions to manage water resources and market linked livelihoods. SRIJANites design and implement water resource management and market oriented livelihoods projects for 18000 rural poor families. It has 60 professionals working in eleven districts of three Indian states. It aims to reach and remove poverty among 100,000 families by 2011. Major private foundations including AIF, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Ford Foundation, Deshpande Foundation and Tata Trusts, and Central and State governments in India support SRIJAN’s path breaking work. Ved has a Management degree from IIM Ahmadabad and a B.Tech from IIT Kanpur.
Date: 08/24/2009
Location: MIT Room 4-231, Cambridge, MA
Time: 6:30 pm
Cost: $10
Food: Dinner INCLUDED as part of registration.
Contact: 617.470.6202
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